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	The Ninth Street Center: Homosexuality
		Paul had enjoyed strong homosexual feelings ever since he was a teenager, but he learned from the psychiatric literature of the time that these feelings were unworthy of any serious person.
		He began to understand his homosexuality not as a genetic defect that he was just born with, but as a logical consequence of psychological polarity.
		Homosexuality: The Psychology of the Creative Process was the first book of American social science to see homosexuality not as a disease but as a valid alternate life-style.
	www.geocities.com /nscenter/Gay.htm (470 words)

	Genetics of Homosexuality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Since this study did determine that the gene influencing homosexuality was carried by the mother, researchers participating in further studies knew that they could limit their search to the X chromosome, and that is exactly what they did (5).
		Bailey and Pillard (1991) did a study of twins that determined a Ò52% concordance of homosexuality in monozygotic twins, 22% for dizygotic twins, and 11% for adoptive brothers of homosexual men (8).
		Some homosexuals feel that if the world realizes that homosexuality is something people are born with, just like the color of your skin or your eyes, then people will begin to be more accepting of the homosexual life-style (5).
	serendip.brynmawr.edu /biology/b103/f97/projects97/Newman.html (1456 words)

	Homosexuality and Mental Health Problems
		But not until 1992 was homosexuality dropped from the psychiatric manual used by other nations--the International Classification of Diseases (King and Bartlett, 1999)--so it appears the rest of the world doubted the APA 1973 decision for nearly two decades.
		To answer that question, what is needed are representative samples of homosexual people which study their mental health, unlike the volunteer samples which have, in the past, selected out any disturbed or gender-atypical subjects (such as in the well-known study by Evelyn Hooker).
		Homosexual promiscuity fuels the AIDS crisis in the West, but even that tragedy it is not allowed to interfere with sexual freedom.
	www.narth.com /docs/whitehead.html (2104 words)

	Psychology 463 -- Homosexuality
		While scientists have pondered the mystery of homosexuality for centuries, the secret of how homosexuals are made is only now beginning to yield to their inquiries.
		To homosexuals struggling to protect and extend their rights, the answers to these questions may mean the difference between acceptance and intolerance, cultural vibrancy and decline--life and death, even.
		And it tracked with other, sketchy indications of "hypermasculinization" among a group of male homosexuals: their average number of sex partners was greater than that of their straight counterparts, the levels of testosterone that circulated in their blood was higher and their genitalia were larger.
	www.csulb.edu /~kmacd/463Gay.html (2944 words)

	THE CHURCH AND HOMOSEXUALITY
		Homosexual attraction, referred to as homosexual orientation, is often experienced as an inherent part of one's earliest sexual awareness.
		Although homosexual attraction or orientation is not a sin in itself, all persons are called to moral responsibility in the way in which they manage their sexual desire.
		Homosexual partnerships are not the moral equivalent of a heterosexual marriage.
	www.ambs.edu /lJohns/Lancaste.htm (3756 words)

	Homosexuality and psychology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The idea of homosexuality as a disease has been universally condemned by mainstream mental health associations and by the majority of mental health professionals.
		There is an ex-gay movement, comprised mostly of conservative and religious groups, which advocates an alternative psychology and regards homosexuality as a sexual disorder, one curable through conversion or reparative therapy.
		The field is outlined in Milton, Coyle and Legg 2002 [3], Milton and Coyle 2003 [4] and Milton and Coyle 2005 [5].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Homosexuality_and_psychology (1417 words)

	Homosexuality and psychology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In his work Sexual Inversion Havelock Ellis first theorised on the origins of homosexuality, proposing that homosexuals, or inverts, were the product of a combination of upbringing and biological factors and that those not predisposed to Homosexuality could become so if they had weak characters and were so influenced.
		This had the effect of preventing homosexuals from having a voice in the formation of psychoanalytical theory and this state of affairs persisted.
		However, some religious movements still expound an alternative psychology that regards Homosexuality as a disorder and one that is curable through conversion or reparative therapies.
	homosexuality-and-psychology.mindbit.com (910 words)

	Is Treating Homosexuality Ethical?
		YES: Warren Throckmorton, director of college counseling and an associate professor of psychology at Grove City College, maintains that efforts to assist homosexually oriented individuals to modify their patterns of sexual arousal have been effective and can be conducted in an ethical manner.
		For nearly 30 years, the governing associations of psychology, psychiatry, and counseling have worked to remove the pathological label from the lifestyles of gay and lesbian individuals.
		Efforts to assist homosexually oriented individuals who wish to modify their patterns of sexual arousal have been shown to be empirically effective.
	www.oswego.edu /~klink/psy100/TreatingHomosexuality.htm (665 words)

	Abnormal Psychology
		Homosexuality Perhaps the most controversial sexual variation in Western culture is homosexuality: sexual activity with a member of one's own sex.
		Homosexuality is thus said to be the result of disturbed early experiences, including poor family life (eg: for men - extremely poor father-son relationships and an overly involved mother) and poor relationships with same-sex peers.
		Psychoanalytic theorists suggest that these experiences caused the homosexual to be afraid of heterosexuality, so they become homosexual as a means of denying their fear of same-sex peers.
	ub-counseling.buffalo.edu /Abpsy/lecture21.html (838 words)

	* Is Psychology a science?
		Human psychology and the related fields of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy achieved their greatest acceptance and popularity in the 1950s, at which time they were publicly perceived as sciences.
		Homosexuality was until recently listed as a mental illness, one believed to be amenable to treatment, in spite of the total absence of clinical evidence.
		But in psychology, this is the norm, not the exception, and it is nearly always the case that the impetus for change comes from a field other than psychology.
	www.arachnoid.com /psychology (5143 words)

	Psychology: Science or Ideology?
		However, both A.P.A.'s promote the public illusion that psychology is an objective and value-free science for one main reason, he believes: they do not wish to lose their authority, and thus their power.
		Greenberg believes that social-justice interests have been served now that homosexuals have been freed from stigmatization by psychiatric diagnosis; but other observers would say--just as confidently--that it is no justice at all when psychology frees homosexuals to rationalize their psychosexual disorder as developmental maturity.
		It reveals much about psychology's reluctance to concede that what we label emotional disorders are typically socially undesirable conditions, added and deleted according to the temper of the times.
	www.leaderu.com /orgs/narth/science-ideology.html (1423 words)

	Homosexuality: Biology, Psychology, and Human Rights
		Dick and Paul are both retired public educators who admitted their homosexual orientation to themselves and the world late in their careers.
		For example, Dean Hammer discovered that homosexuality in some men may be caused by a gene on the X chromosome in a region labeled Xq28.
		During the discussion that followed there was a lot of emphasis on the genetic results until Professor Deen Chatterjee made the point that, from a strictly moral point-of-view, it does not matter whether homosexuality is a result of Nature or of Nurture.
	www.humanistsofutah.org /2001/genjuly2001.html (583 words)

	Homosexuality and medical science - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The relationship between homosexuality and medical science has a long and controversial history, covering many countries and stretching across a wide spectrum of specialities, from psychology to epistemology to genetics.
		Some health related discrimination concerns cited by homosexuals are linked to the non-existence of same-sex marriage: hospital visitation issues, end-of-life decision making and lack of health insurance, typically given only to legal spouses and family members.
		Homosexual women are less at risk of exposure to sexually transmitted diseases than any other group including heterosexuals.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Homosexuality_and_medical_science (991 words)

	What Causes Homosexual Desire - Dr. Cameron
		The peculiar nature of homosexual desire has led some people to conclude that this urge must be innate: that a certain number of people are "born that way," that sexual preferences cannot be changed or even ended.
		The results were significant: Homosexual experience in the early year, particularly if it was one's first sexual experience - was a strong predictor of adult homosexual behavior, both for males and females.
		And then there are ex-homosexuals - those who have continued in homosexual liaisons for a number of years and then chose to change not only their habits, but also the object of their desire.
	www.biblebelievers.com /Cameron3.html (1897 words)

	Teaching Clinical Psychology - Homosexuality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It's OK for homosexuals to be teachers, including teachers of children.
		Homosexuals should be allowed in the military, including combat divisions.
		Although many students are generally accepting of homosexuality, the responses to the statements often reveal more subtle attitudes and preconceptions.
	www.rider.edu /~suler/homo.html (323 words)

	Psychology of Homosexuality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The wording of his quote seems to indicate that he doesn't like homosexuals very much because he feels that they basically are psychologically screwed up.
		Although this psychologist believes that homosexuality is a psychological disorder, he does not speak for the rest of the American Psychological Association (with tens of thousands of members) has declared that psychology has nothing to do with homosexuality.
		Judd Marmor helped to remove homosexuality from the DSM and in 1973 his efforts were realized.
	www-unix.oit.umass.edu /~kripston/homosexuality/Psychology.html (426 words)

	Council for Responsible Genetics
		Homosexuality in brothers of these men was measured at 7-11% compared with a population prevalence of 2%.
		Utilizing a sample of 29 self-identified homosexual brother pairs, the authors investigated familial factors that are thought to influence male sexual orientation.
		Concordance for homosexuality in MZ twins was 31.6%, 44.4% for female MZ, and 20% for male MZ twins.
	gene-watch.org /programs/gd.html (2222 words)

	Homo-Active 'Heterosexual' Males: A Social Construction
		Homosexual closets are social constructions rooted in hatred and they represent one of the many forms of violence our society inflicts on homosexual people, but closets accomplish much more.
		It may also be possible, and common, that such repressed homosexuals had homosexual experiences in their youth and are mistakenly attributing the existence of their homosexual desires to these experiences.
		The equation between "homosexuality" and "the devil," however, is as dangerous as was the equation between women and the devil existing during the Inquisition.
	www.youth-suicide.com /gay-bisexual/prisons.htm (12546 words)

	What Does Science Tell Us About Homosexuality?
		But even if homosexuality had been proven to be strictly genetic, they say, this would not be grounds per se for changing the biblical sexual ethic.
		Another chapter, "Is Homosexuality a Psychopathology?" answers those social critics who insist that science settled the question of the normality once and for all, in 1973.
		The authors also consider scientific evidence for the changeability of homosexuality, weighing that evidence and concluding with a guarded optimism for motivated clients who have not become heavily immersed in gay life.
	www.narth.com /docs/sciencetellus.html (536 words)

	The Ninth Street Center: "Homosexuality"
		Homosexuality in its broadest sense emerges as the key to this creative struggle, particularly the growing relationship between fathers and sons, and mothers and daughters.
		On a scientific level this book is offered as the record of a monumental discovery comparable to the Newtonian revolution in physics, yet it is written as a guide to living for all who are independent enough to seek out the rewards which come from understanding it.
		Homosexuality: The Psychology of the Creative Process is the offering of a brilliant physician who has given a lifetime of thought and analysis to his subject.
	www.ninthstreetcenter.org /HPCP.htm (659 words)

	Nature, Nurture, Homosexuality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The same happenes to man. When a man is homosexual, he feels as though he is a woman inside and acts like her and puts make up.
		Woman are born to reproduce generations, and man are born to continue and help woman do that so, it does not matter who has what kind of gender likes we all still have the same jobs on this planet to do and that is to continue the life.
		I have a debate going on after two days about homosexuality: nature or nurture and i have to stand with NATURE, so please anyone out their please give me a good reason as to why homosexuality is nature.
	cognews.com /1066632868/index_html (842 words)

	PFLAG - Columbia, SC - Psychology Articles
		The APA hasn't considered homosexuality a mental disorder since 1975, when it passed a resolution that supported the American Psychiatric Association's 1973 decision to stop classifying homosexuality as a mental illness.
		More than 20 years after the mental health profession officially rejected homosexuality as a psychological disorder, a small but persistent group of therapists refuses to believe the data that show homosexuality is a normal path of development.
		Stern is an emeritus professor of psychology at Iona College in New Rochelle, N.Y. Although he does not practice conversion therapy himself, Stern believes that if a gay man decides he might be interested in women, he should be allowed to explore that potential.
	www.pflagcolumbiasc.org /psychology.php (2843 words)

	American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. - Textbook of Homosexuality and Mental Health
		With more than 50 chapters written by leaders in the field, this book is the most complete review of the topics of homosexuality and mental health and treatment of gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, and transsexuals to date.
		Starting from the belief that homosexuality is a normal variation of human sexuality and not a mental illness, this revolutionary book presents current information on homosexuality from a mental health and medical perspective.
		Biology and homosexuality: implications of neuroendocrinological and neuroanatomical studies.
	www.appi.org /book.cfm?id=8716 (1073 words)

	Homosexuality and neurosis: considerations for psychotherapy.
		Though there is no correlation between mental illness and homosexuality, there are unique concerns that play a role in symptomatology and psychotherapy around neurotic and characterological issues in gay patients.
		Homophobia, both in the therapist and in the patient, external and internalized, is the significant hidden factor.
		There are some problems and concerns specific to being homosexual that may bring patients to therapy: coming-out, deciding on sexual orientation, desire to change orientation, and a unique AIDS neurosis.
	www.aegis.com /aidsline/1988/nov/M88B0452.html (344 words)

	Magic City Morning Star: Homosexuality in Sex Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		I can just hear the uproar, but in fact, apart from studying homosexuality in psychology classes, I actually joined a group that was formed to assist "religious parents" cope with the coming out of their gay children.
		By the same token, from my discussions with homosexuals, I also know that for some it was a case of always having known that they sexually desired members of their own gender.
		As for homosexuality, while it does exist, and no longer carries a criminal penalty for the sexual act itself (although there are other charges that can apply), it can easily hide itself within the culture that does exist, IF one were to somehow discover another with the same disposition.
	magic-city-news.com /article_3292.shtml (1450 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Nebo reviewing texts' approach to homosexuality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A committee made up of teachers, parents and administrators focuses on the needs of social studies in the district and is going through textbooks used in the required and elective classes.
		The psychology textbooks are seven years old, and some teachers have said they want to replace them, Call said.
		Advance Placement psychology classes use a standard textbook to prepare students for an end-of-year exam that can garner college credits for students who pass.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,600113491,00.html (459 words)

	Homosexuality
		Sodomy, homosexuality and psychology, homosexuality and the Bible, and the ethics of homosexuality are among the topics discussed in this section.
		Article discusses research in homosexual orientation and psychology.
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	pages.sbcglobal.net /ric700/public_html/homosexuality.htm (177 words)

	Review of Paul Rosenfels's Homosexuality: Psychology of Creative Process
		For example, to experience full psychological growth, everyone must pass through homosexual territory.
		In fact, one must choose to experience homosexual potential.
		A "masculine" man may find being loved by another man more affirming to his masculinity than being "loved" in a conventional fashion by a woman in conventional marriage.
	hometown.aol.com /jboushka/brrosen.htm (535 words)

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